We often associate grieving with the death of a loved one, but grief is a broad concept that encompasses a wide range of losses and feelings. Quotes on grief might help you understand your emotions and communicate condolences to others.
Grief is a normal and natural emotional response to loss or change, despite the fact that it throws our life upside down.
When someone we care about passes away, something familiar and routine for us comes to an end. We must adjust to life without them, which is a new and unpleasant reality.
We experience sadness, rage, despair, or even relief that they are no longer in pain. When a relationship or career dies, we have those same sensations and experience a different form of loss.
40+ Grief Quotes As it throws our life upside down
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.― J.R.R. Tolkien
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.___Elizabeth Gilbert
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.― Cassandra Clare
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.― Leo Tolstoy
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.___Sarah Waters
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. – Sarah Dessen
The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.___Katie McGarry
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.― J.K. Rowling
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.___Arthur Golden
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.― Richard Adams
And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.― J.D. Salinger
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.___Pablo Neruda
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. – Kristina McMorris
When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.___John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.― E.A. Bucchianeri
What separates us from the animals is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.– David Levithan
You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking.__Laurel K. Hamilton
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.___C.S. Lewis
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.___Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.― Veronica Roth
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are evil. – J.R.R. Tolkein, Return of the King
You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.___Anne Lamott
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.― John Green
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.― Rumi
Well, everyone can master grief but he that has it.___William Shakespeare
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!___Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.__William Shakespeare, Macbeth
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. – Faraaz Kazi
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.___Meghan O’Rourke
If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.___Lemony Snicket
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.― José N. Harris
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. – William Shakespeare, Henry VI
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.___Orson Scott Card
Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.___Sarah Dessen
She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’ ‘I’m sorry,’ she replied. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.’___Terry Pratchett
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.― C.S. Lewis
When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.__Pat Schweibert
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.– Nicholas Sparks
Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it’s been too long since you missed them last.___Kristen O’Donnell Tubb
If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.___Ranata Suzuki
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.___Helen Keller
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.___Vicki Harrison
Life has to end, love doesn’t.– Mitch Albom
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.___Jodi Picoult
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.___Seneca
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.___Alphonse de Lamartine
Tears are the silent language of grief. – Voltaire
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.___C.S. Lewis
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.___Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
The grief of any kind is valid and takes time to process.